Dawn
Don’t let the failures of the past limit the potential of today and the successes of the future.
We had a rescued parrot for a couple of years, which our son had named him Xerxes. Xerxes was hand raised , what I mean is that Xerxes was hatched in a incubator. He was sold off once he looked healthy and strong for an handsome amount. Xerxes lived in a cage and never learned to fly. Even when he could fly his wings his owners trimmed to keep him from flying.
Xerxes’ wings grew strong and big and his feathers grew out long and beautiful after he came to us. He would flap hard and clumsily and hit himself against a wall when he tried to fly. After a while he even refused to try to fly. The poor bird thought he could never fly no matter how much we tried to help him. He walked around the house like a chicken.
There was nothing wrong with his wings, it was the limitation of his mind that made him a flightless bird. He had allowed the failures of his past, limit his potential of today to fly into the future.
Don’t let the failure of the past limit your future!!
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Your future doesn’t have to be limited by your past, right?
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Sky is the limit when live up to our potential, right?
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Even if the birds could fly I doubt the bird would survive abroad ..
Absolutely He didn’t have the skills for life within and without.
I long for freedom in my soul. In that freedom I am not measured by failure, i am not measured by success, I am measured as a human.
I slightly changed the immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King, but they fit your post welL!
Hmm, that would be the day when we are appreciated for who we are as humans.
i have a dream, Dr. King said. That one day my sons and daughter can walk down the street and be judged, not on the color of their skin but on the contents of their minds!
it would in fact be a grand day!
That speech has seen so many places and has been delivered from so many podiums. Yet , will that day ever come… Racism, antisemitism, and such still rule the world.
you are so right, i wish you were not right, but you are. The reality of the world sometimes it that it is ok to hate.
i find that so sad.
That is very true Dawn I have come to realize that through my writing. I have had moments where I have been rejected but then I just go on and look for writing work elsewhere and the best of all is when the rewards start coming in
We all go through rejections, but how we handle it makes us who we are. Best wishes for greater success in your online writing this year.
A bit of a sad story, but a very inspiring message!
Xerxes is happy as he is. The truth is even if he learns to fly he cannot be a free bird as he has no clue how to save or defend himself.
I am not distracted by my failures from the past with successes in the future … I have left the past behind
Bravo Lado, these battles are tough but not impossible.
That’s right … I did it pretty well, dear Dawn
Very true words, difficult to do at times but very important reminder.
You are right battles are difficult.
I appreciate so much the lesson I learned from Xerxes’ story and the teaching behind it. You said, it was the limitation of his mind that made him a flightless bird”.” We sometimes limit our capacity to doing better and greater. Thank you so much!
We do limit our capacity to do better because we doubt ourselves. Thank you Country Mama for stopping by to comment.
If the past helps people learn from there mistakes, then it was worth it.
True, we should never forget the lessons of the past.